You can play samples via MIDI with Bars & Pipes and the Amigophone tool. However, they need to be IFF multi-octave samples (can be create with AudioMaster IV).

Bars & Pipes proved to be a mindfuck for teh simple use I wanted to give it. Believe me I tried to use it. I printed the manual at all. It also guru'd on my Amiga frequently and that's when I threw it to shit. Sorry, I know you love and use it a lot, but it's just not the tool for me! I need a very simple sample player that can be remoted through MIDI.

I can't remember it's name, but I seem to recall an amiga based sample player that used the amiga like a tone module through midi. It sounds like the sort of thing you are after, if you can't find mignon.

I haven't tried either of these programs so I don't know how useful they are to youse or anyone else, but they may be of help to someone that just wants to use a spare amiga as a midi "instrument". Similarly, if folk haven't already heard of it a combination of midi-ox and midi-yoke can do the same with a spare windows pc running vst's or whatever.

I tried those two and are horrible pieces of software. Lock up the Amiga randomly, can't take any proper fast MIDI signal...en fin, this is why I look for options The idea behind those two is exactly what I need but the execution is beyond poor.

Of course I have sampler software for the PC/Mac, but that's not the point.

I found (at least) the Demo of Mignon PS 3.0 - was on cd.textfiles.com website
german version, save disabled :/
I added the sample disk i found on those BBS images a while back.
if you load the song on the demo disk and then the sampel list, it will load the samples from the 2nd disk.